In some parts of the world is becoming popular to research the history of one's own family. Why might people want to do this? is it positive or negative development?

More and more
people
are becoming interested in knowing their origins and the story of their
families
. Most probably those
people
want to know about their origins out of simple curiosity, but others might hope to find answers to
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the confusion that
this
last
century
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.
In other words
, I believe that
this
practice has lately increased because many
people
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and lost. Getting to know
one’s
origin could help them to understand better themselves and to find relatives they did not know about it. In the past,
families
were more united but nowadays
people
are moving really fast and easily from
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place to another.
This
causes family
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separated and to create new
families
elsewhere
.
While
the world is more globally interconnected, small groups
such
as
families
tend to be
further
away
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other.
This
situation of detachment leads
people
to feel lost and lonely. Finding
about
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one’s
own history can make them feel part
something
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that sadly got lost. In my opinion,
this
is a positive development, but it could
also
have some negative drawbacks. It is positive because
this
phenomenon shows that
people
care about their history and they are brave enough to look back,
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out who they are and where they belong
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. Sometimes It is just easier to create a new family and move forward with our life. As I mentioned before,
people
might just be curious about their ancestors and I think curiosity is what
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us human
therefore
I think it is really positive. Despite being an interesting practice, I see some minor drawbacks in looking up to the past.
For example
, by doing a heritage DNA check we give out our information that
then
are being shown to everybody and I find
this
not so safe. We could
also
get to know things that change the
relation
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we have
to
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our present life and could influence our future.
Last
but not least, knowing someone
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claims to be a relative could
also
not be as pleasant as it sounds
like
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and it could remind us
to
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of
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the reasons why we got far away to create a new family in the first place.
To conclude
, despite possible unexpected negative consequences, I think
that is
really important and is a good practice to look up at the history of
one’s
own family to feel part of something and to better understand
one’s
present life.
Submitted by Fulvia on

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Genealogy
  • Heritage
  • Ancestry
  • Lineage
  • Descendants
  • Forebears
  • Pedigree
  • Dynasty
  • Progenitors
  • Ethnicity
  • Genetic predisposition
  • Familial ties
  • Archival records
  • Hereditary
  • Kinship
  • Self-identity
  • Patriarchy/Matriarchy
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